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Word of the Day: Bells and Whistles
As I mentioned, my wife and I are tickled pink with our new car and all its bells and whistles.
This does not mean the car sounds like Santa’s reindeer and all their sleigh bells—”Jingle, jingle, jingle, I can hear those sleigh bells say…”
No, definitely not.
The term bells and whistles refers to special features added to a product to make it more appealing to customers.
Heated seats, cruise control, a heated steering wheel, etc., are some bells and whistles we can put on a car.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 80.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
